Need help - Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router and a Linksys Broadband Router
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From: gecko on 30 Mar 2008 12:51 I found a like-new Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router with 4-port switch and a Linksys Broadband Router with 2 Phone Ports. Complete with voltage adapters for each. They were wrapped together and appear to be a matched set, but I don't understand this combination. Anyone tell me how these would have worked together? Or maybe they weren't meant to work together? I also don't understand the distinction between a "Broadband Router" and an "Ethernet Cable/DSL Router." Further, I don't understand either why a router requires a telephone connection. My friend's DSL modem has a telephone connection. I've never seen a router or a switch with one. Thanks -GECKO
From: jameshanley39 on 30 Mar 2008 17:41 On 30 Mar, 17:51, gecko <al...(a)olympus.net> wrote: > I found a like-new Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router with 4-port > switch and a Linksys Broadband Router with 2 Phone Ports. Complete > with voltage adapters for each. They were wrapped together and appear > to be a matched set, but I don't understand this combination. Anyone > tell me how these would have worked together? Or maybe they weren't > meant to work together? > > I also don't understand the distinction between a "Broadband Router" > and an "Ethernet Cable/DSL Router." Further, I don't understand > either why a router requires a telephone connection. My friend's DSL > modem has a telephone connection. I've never seen a router or a switch > with one. > > Thanks > > -GECKO You have 2 types of product on the market Plain Routers and Router/Modems Router/Modems have the RJ11 socket - which is for connecting the modem part of it to the wall. (in the USA, i.e. where you probably are, the telephones use RJ11 at the wall too.. The RJ11 socket you refer to is probably a modem socket not a telephone socket) DSL Router implies it is a router/modem, because DSL refers to the modem. You have DSL modems not DSL Routers. It is possible for a Router/Modem to have a telephone socket.. Just like an answering machine might have a telephone socket on it. Becuase the answering machine usees one socket. So it provides another one. So if you don't have a Y adaptor, lucky you, the device has it. Router/Modems can work alone and usually do. But I guess you can connect a plain Router to them if you want. Plain Routers tend to be more advanced in the Router aspect, than Router/Modems. They cannot work alone.. They have an RJ45 socket typically labelled WAN. It is for the DSL Modem. So you connect the router and modem together with an ethernet cable. (I know.. technically a Router/Modem's RJ11 socket is connecting to a WAN too.. But this is just how things are labelled.) Now for some less clarity.. From what I have seen, and this may be UK only, since many people disagree with me.. but then cannot find products to give examples to counter.. In the UK, we tend to have Routers, and Router/DSL Modems. We do not have Router/Cable modems. i.e. our Router/Modems have an RJ11/telephone/modem socket not a cable connector. We have separate cable modems. (maybe only taking one computer, not sure).. Or you can connect a Router to them and connect more. There are also little very limited DSL Router/Modems, for one or two computers to connect.. Generally the ones with many ports are called Router/Modems. And the ones with one are called Modems. No good reason really.. really though, the difference between one port and many, is a Network Switch. Plain Routers can be used for Cable or DSL. Once they have a DSL modem in there i.e. they are a router/dsl modem, they are not really for cable.. though perhaps you could just not use the DSL modem, and use the router functionality.
From: gecko on 30 Mar 2008 19:16
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:09:40 -0500, Pen <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote: >The one with phone ports might be one of Linksys' old HPNA ones. Posting >the model and version numbers would help make an accurate reply. Okay - here it is: Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch, Model BEFSR41 ver. 3 Linksys Broadband Router with 2 Phone Ports, Model RT31P2 Thanks -Gecko |